Synopsis
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Edwin L. MarinDirector
- Benjamin GlazerScreenplay
- Charles KaufmanScreenplay
Cast
- Elisabeth BergnerMarianne Jannetier
- Randolph ScottFlight Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan
- Basil RathboneAndre Benoit
- Eduardo CiannelliMouche, the bartender
- Gale SondergaardMadame Colette
- Lee J. CobbCaptain Schwabe
- Charles ArntNazi Lt. Lantz
- William Edmunds'Professor', the bar owner
- Paul LeyssacChief of Underground
- J. Pat O'MalleySgt. 'Mack' McAvoy
- Gene GarrickThe Panicked German Co-Pilot [script name: Wolfgang Schmidt]
- Pedro de CordobaFiery Speaker at Jannetier House
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Themes
paris, francenazipatriotismsuspicionsabotagegestapoinnoccupied france (1940-44)secret codecollaboratorstolen documentsunderground movement